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The church was built in 1843 by Sydney Smirke and enlarged 1860.

It is believed that St James was founded in Pottergate in 1689, as there is an old pewter alms dish inscribed with that date.

Spacious perpendicular style church with many medieval features including the Hotspur pillar and a charter from 1464 charter of Henry VI that two 'burgesses' of Alnwick rebuilt their church.

A beautiful ancient church set in a large rural churchyard, an ideal place for quiet meditation.

There seem to have been chapels of the Knights Templars and Hospitallers in Wetherby but these would be distinct from a parochial chapel for the use of the ordinary laity.

The core of the present church, one of the best surviving Anglo Saxon buildings in West Yorkshire, was built about 1200 years ago, and much remains of the tall narrow Saxon nave and tower.